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Five Favorite Things: Shad & Leigh Kvetko

By Nikki Lott
Dec 18, 2015

Shad and Leigh Kvetko are collectors. Shad for life and Leigh for as long as she’s known Shad. They love a lot of things and they know even more … things. With all their knowledge they could probably teach a class at the learning annex, if we had one. Or...
Five Favorite Things: Larry Oliver and Jamie Laubhan-Oliver

By Nikki Lott
Dec 7, 2015

PICTURE OLIVER Welcome to the home of Larry Oliver and Jamie Laubhan-Oliver, two graphic designing badasses that dabble in home design, greenhouse building and concrete-picnic-table making. Basically, they have more talents than they have last names and chief among them is making the rest of us hobos jealous. But don’t...
Five Favorite Things: William Baker

By Nikki Lott
Nov 30, 2015

William Baker has us all beat. He’s filled with knowledge, humility and seriously some of the best taste in Dallas. (That sounds weird, but we mean he has great taste. Not like he has the best, Taste in Dallas!) Anyway, bullet points!!! Childhood: Baker saved his money and shopped for collectibles...
Five Favorite Things: Erin Stanley

By Nikki Lott
Nov 10, 2015

Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. Erin Stanley is adorable and so is everything about her – her house, her...
Five Favorite Things: Rob Bradford

By Nikki Lott
Oct 26, 2015

Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. Rob Bradford is a costume designer and vintage collector with just the right amount...
Five Favorite Things: Amy Strickland

By Nikki Lott
Oct 19, 2015

Amy Strickland’s friends call her house The Funhouse and if this were a court of law, here’s our case. In her bedroom she has three plastic half balloons on the wall and a track of working carnival lights that were once used as a sales tool, but are now used...
Five Favorite Things: Holly Jefferson

By Nikki Lott
Oct 8, 2015

Holly Jefferson is one of those people. You know, like, happy and cheerful and generally pleasant to be around. When you walk into her house, there’s a floor-to-ceiling, open room divider that’s painted bright yellow. Break out your protractor and turn forty-five degrees to the left, and there’s a bright...
Five Favorite Things: Lou Simmons and Lynn Bossange

By Nikki Lott
Oct 2, 2015

Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. When you’re a normal person and you’re renovating your house, you get overwhelmed, drink...
Design Collective Yeti & the Beast's Favorite Things

By Nikki Lott
Sep 23, 2015

When you step onto the front porch of Allie Hill and Jayme and Michel Ditto’s house, all the neon-painted pots and plants are so perfectly arranged, you’d swear they were styled by a professional, because they were – Allie, Jayme and Mitchell. They’re graphic designers by trade, but they’ve come...
Cara Crossley's 5 Favorite Things

By Nikki Lott
Sep 3, 2015

Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. Favorite Five: Cara Crossley, Instagram @unclecarl13 When you walk into Cara Crossley’s house, your...
10-ish Things You'll Learn From I Am Chris Farley

By Nikki Lott
Aug 5, 2015

Last night we weren't about to miss the screening of I Am Chris Farley at the Texas Theatre. Now we have lots of thoughts and feels. Here are a few of them. It was good, not great. (See 9 through 12.) Bob Saget and Chris Farley were friends?!? “Yep, they...
Straight Sleuthin'

By Nikki Lott
May 7, 2015

Are you one of those a-holes who cracks the case before the detectives on the show and then ruins it for everyone else by shouting, “Oh, come on, it’s clearly the shifty chimney sweep?” First of all, you’re an a-hole. We covered that. But second of all, your time has...
Screw DIY, The Handmade Bash is Back

By Nikki Lott
Apr 30, 2015

Not that long ago, craft fairs were about as cool as a No Fear sticker on the back of your Ford Probe, but oh how the times have changed. Nowadays, No Fear still sucks, but Craft Fairs are the business with one small caveat – don’t call it a craft...
It's an Illusion, Michael

By Nikki Lott
Apr 23, 2015

MAGIC. Not Johnson. Just magic. See modern day spectacles from Dallas’ own Confetti Eddie and Trigg Watson. At 10 p.m. Friday Confetti Eddie invites you into his personal studio, 823 Exposition Ave., where illusions will be performed, Lyric Laveau will sing and special guest star Sweet T will burlesque her...
Get Your Oral Fixed…Wait, No…

By Nikki Lott
Apr 16, 2015

Oral Fixation started as “what’s that now?” but in four teeny tiny years it’s grown into a personal essay powerhouse. Each showcase has a theme, hundreds of essays are submitted and the ones that make it to the stage are the best of the best. What we’re trying to say...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

By Nikki Lott
Apr 9, 2015

Mary (yes, that Mary) is often portrayed as obedient, peaceful and poised, but what happens when we dig deeper? When an author sets out to create a humanized version of our beloved virgin? The result is Irish author Colm Tóibín’s short novel, The Testament of Mary. In it, Tóibín brings...
It’s Rex Manning Day at The Granada

By Nikki Lott
Apr 9, 2015

Not that long ago, Ethan Embry was a thing and Liv Tyler was another thing. Oh, and Renee Zellewegger was a thing that wasn’t even Bridget Jones. Anyway, they all worked in a record store called Empire Records that was about to be bought out by Music Town, basically the...
Chicago Blows Into Town

By Nikki Lott
Apr 2, 2015

“Chic-ag-o with murder and dance and tip tappity tap JAZZ HANDS.” If I’m not mistaken, those are the opening lyrics to the musical Chicago, made famous by the movie that bears the same name. I kid. Chicago was a massive hit long before Queen Latifah ever set foot on the...
Ain't No Fault in these Stars

By Nikki Lott
Apr 2, 2015

The Little Prince isn’t just the story of that baby Michael Jackson had with his nurse. It’s a real live story. Like a book an’ shit. It also happens to be Jeff Swearingen’s favorite story ever. Seriously. We have a picture of his high school notebook and it’s covered in...
You Betcha, It's Fargo

By Nikki Lott
Mar 19, 2015

Long before it was a show, Fargo was a movie staring Frances McDormand and co-starring her gnarly accent. She plays a pregnant police chief who stumbles on a disturbingly bumbled crime. William H. Macy plays a struggling car salesman with a hot tip on an investment property. The only problem?...
Bo Up from the Flo Up

By Nikki Lott
Mar 5, 2015

Bo Burnham taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday. Four days after turning 18. That made him the youngest performer to tape a Comedy Central special and therefore public enemy number one to my former high school self. Then I watched his stand-up...
Tootin’ Their Own Horns

By Nikki Lott
Feb 26, 2015

At the age of 7, Ryan Anthony began playing the trumpet and was instantly considered a child prodigy. At the age of 17, he soloed with both the Detroit Symphony and the Cleveland Institute of Music. By 2003, he became one of the most sought after trumpet players in the...